With its outsize red carpet, compulsory sunglasses and auteur-worship, the Cannes film festival has been at the pinnacle of the international film festival circuit for decades. It somehow manages to shoehorn both movie-world glamour and austere artistic rigour into the same 10-day screening frenzy on France’s Côte d’Azur, packing movie stars...
Multifunctional Center S. Lucia: a great business project for the relaunch of Casalnuovo
Yet another success signed Serena Errico Costruzioni S.r.l.
A long and solid experience gained in the construction field and the continuous search for highly innovative solutions: these are the pillars on which Serena Errico Costruzioni Generali Srl is...
She has an Academy Award for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and she graced a 2009 Australian postage stamp. You’d imagine that Nicole Kidman would sigh wearily at the prospect of winning Yet Another Bafta. Instead, she greets the news of...
The new Netflix adaptation has won fans for its future shocks, but like much dystopian sci-fi it struggles to get away from the shadow of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece
Imagine a Black Mirror future. San Francisco, say, in the 24th century: a depraved new world, but one stacked precariously on the...
“Better than Martin Luther King’s I Dream of Jeannie speech”: the president (Alec Baldwin) is reflecting on the greatness of his first State of the Union from the comfort of his White House bedroom. “Who’s the most innocent guy in the whole wide world?” he says.
“I’m down here at...
Marvel comics has removed a book from circulation after a fan backlash against some Koranic messages in the artwork.
In two vignettes of X-Men Gold #1, Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf coloured several hidden references to passages of the Koran and to Muslim protests against the Christian governor of Jakarta.
The verses...
Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield are seated in the latter’s hotel room in Marylebone, central London, ostensibly promoting the Manic Street Preachers’ forthcoming 14th album, Resistance Is Futile, but instead talking about the possibility of Manic Street Preachers splitting up. Wire says he finds the prospect “terrifying”, which is understandable:...
We all witnessed a bit of history last night at the Oscars, with the chaos of the Best Picture announcement. The aftermath of any historical event provides us with the opportunity for education, to learn something that was not known before, so we may be better equipped for the...
After turning its back on mopey comedies about listless people grappling with ennui in big houses, Amazon is banking everything on its upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show. According to Reuters, buying the rights to the property alone set Amazon back $250 million. Once production and marketing has been...
Both R&B loverman and hip-hop thug, Toronto homeboy and global magpie, Drake’s universal appeal has made him the definitive pop star of his generation. How did he get to the top – and how long can he stay there?
Lots of weird things have happened at the top of the...
